Maybe the community activity has expedited an ongoing action, maybe it has been just fortuitous timing, but, out of the blue, Oracle are able to reveal to Pythian that AWR can now be disabled after all … but they (Oracle) wouldn’t advise that. Perhaps this is evidence that the community is becoming more influential – credit to everyone, give yourselves a pat on the back but save the (double) whiskies for when it’s a free and integral part of the Enterprise Edition. And hurrah to Oracle for listening and reacting … if that’s what has happened. Or maybe it’s just a case of well done for spotting an anomaly all by yourselves and doing something-that-you-wouldn’t-advise about it.